2: Within the Sheltered Courtyard
The second of two programmes on the letters of KWEI_LI
Compiled and presented by George W. Scott from two books by ELIZABETH COOPER
Twenty-five years after her marriage and the loss of her first child, Kwei-li, writing from Shanghai at the turn of the century, reveals her reactions to the changing atmosphere of the New China.
. These boys of ours are so much attracted by the glimpses they have had of European civilisation, that they look dewn upon their own nationality. They have been abroad only long enough to take on the veneer of Western education: it is a half-and-half knowledge: and it is these young men who become the discontented ones of China.'
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS